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Jan 17, 08 - 02:20 pm Comment from: Think

Poor PC user on Visa reading this web page....
"Cancel or Allow"

Lol i agree Vista is about as good as a pole up your backside

Installing Leopard this weekend for sure now.

And buying a new AppleTV.

And buying a Airport Base Station.

And a Mac Mini to hook up my nice Matte Screen to.

I have old eyes, reflections in glossy screens gives me headaches.

Jan 17, 08 - 02:32 pm Comment from: Jubei

It's amazing what Apple is accomplishing despite going up against a company that has a Government approved monopoly on the market.

If they didn't have this monopoly, can you imagine the massive losses they have been incurring for years in numbers? They would have been out of business many years ago. Boy, sure is nice to be able to keep having that monopoly guarantee that revenue stream, year after year....

Who (except Zune Tang) could ever be surprised about that? So obvious!

I love how they have to have a ton of columns for all the crappy versions of windows.

MS doesn't really care about how people receive Vista. MS just sell it and people buy it. Call it whatever you want, Vista sells.

The reality is, whether you like Vista or not, you have a highly good chance to use it since Microsoft is the standard. Whenever a person buy a PC, she gets Vista. Therefore Microsoft really can afford sucking since 90+% of the market will certanly end up with that new OS on their machine.

Apple on the other end needs to execute perfectly, innovate like crazy, be ahead of the game constantly... and not miss their chance with the iPhone. This is their new opportunity to become a reference in the corporate world since that little tiny stuff is in fact, a computer.

Jan 17, 08 - 02:59 pm Comment from: qka

I love how they have to have a ton of columns for all the crappy versions of windows.

I for one would be interested to see where Tiger would come in.

Jan 17, 08 - 03:01 pm Comment from: Ampar

"If they didn't have this monopoly, can you imagine the massive losses they have been incurring for years in numbers?"


Gates would still be writing bad software. But out of his mom's basement.
And Ballmer would still be frightening children, causing livestock to calve prematurely and killing thousands of acres of crops by salting the earth with his unique form of irrigation.

Jan 17, 08 - 03:09 pm Comment from: Thorin

"And Ballmer would still be frightening children, causing livestock to calve prematurely and killing thousands of acres of crops by salting the earth with his unique form of irrigation."

ROFLMAO

Jan 17, 08 - 03:10 pm Comment from: PT

altogether now...'well der!'

The ultimate no-brainer story! Otherwise known as preaching to the choir!

Nevertheless, its as I keep saying -> the big mo' is moving behind apple and the push is happening. There's no substitute for quality!

Maybe it'll be like the early 80's all over again when Apple ruled the earth (well, them and Commodore- shine on Apple II, Vic 20 and Commodore 64 you crazy daimonds - 2 points if you can name the show where that come from? The bit about shining on crazy diamonds)

Jan 17, 08 - 03:12 pm Comment from: Jubei

@Ampar

Ahahaha... I bet in somewhere in one of the multiverses world this is really happening.

Jan 17, 08 - 03:13 pm Comment from: Dave H

"causing livestock to calve prematurely"

I heard he may even have that effect on sheep.

Jan 17, 08 - 03:18 pm Comment from: Ampar

"I heard he may even have that effect on sheep."


Or as Ballmer likes to grunt, "Ooooh, curly, fuzzy snack."

Jan 17, 08 - 03:19 pm Comment from: ericdano

Come on Zune Tang, where is your take on this?

Jan 17, 08 - 03:20 pm Comment from: Ampar

Jubei, welcome to the machine.

Jan 17, 08 - 03:25 pm Comment from: Demon

XP approval rating is only that high because half of them have tried Vista and gone back to XP.

Bah, Those statistics are biased. If you add up all the Windows columns, you get 146% - Close to twice the satisfaction which dwarfs Apple's measly 81%


Seriously, there have been a few "articles" going around claiming Leopard was having huge problems with acceptance like Vista has been. Between this little survey and Jobs' comment about the upgrade sales for Leopard, I think that there is no real comparison.

Pink Floyd
Shine on you crazy diamonds
indeed.

Jan 17, 08 - 03:53 pm Comment from: Predrag

Isn't the name of that album "Wish You Were Here"?

(And Shine On You Crazy Diamond was the ultimate make-out song on it; together with "Welcome to the Machine", it came in at about 20 minutes...)

I looked at these charts and :

Hey, wait a minute, I say you have to add up all the Microsoft OS's to get a real total. (53 51 27 15 = 153)

I get 153% of the people buying a Microsoft OS are glad that an some kind of OS came with the computer.

See, Microsoft is much better than you are trying to make them.

Really. ..... Honest .......


Disclaimer. This advertisment was paid for by Microsoft and in no way resembles the truth.

MDN word = quality. Honest.

And hey, to the other guy who came up with 146, ... I know my numbers are right since I used Vista and Excel.

27% and 15% satisfaction for two of the Vista version is a horrible result for Microsoft. That's very very very low satisfaction for any business. If that was my business I'd want to change something very quickly.

I got a radical idea. Instead of returning our old Macs to Apple for recycling whenever we buy a new one. We could donate them to a windows user. An old Mac is about as fast as a new PC ain't it?

Jan 17, 08 - 07:32 pm Comment from: Ampar

Excellent idea, Andrew. That would be a very PC thing to do.

This is old news. Everybody knows Apple fans always give 10/10 for everything Apple on these kind of surveys.

There sure were a lot of people complaining about installation problems with Leopard for only 19 % to be dissatisfied.

@me, well, if you don't look to see who is actually being surveyed, then how can you come to any conclusions, let alone put down this survey as some sort of fanboyism.

According to the Changewave website, the surveyed members are: "a network of 13,000 highly qualified business, technology and medical professionals in leading companies of select industries". So, not a random selection of Apple fanboys, afterall.

I'm tired of you guys being mean to me - I am going to buy macdailynews.com and turn it into a zune fan site.

Hahahahaha!

Does any find it interesting that the company running this survey (and many other survey's like it) have investment interest in these products? During the iPhone release ChangeWave was giving rave reviews while Tobin Smith held stock in Apple (AAPL). Wake up people (that goes for you PC users as well (which I happen to be). Go out and use the product (iPhone or otherwise) for yourselves. Most companies allow you to make a purchase and try a unit for 15 days or so. I'm an IT admin and found the iPhone to be an amazing multimedia experience. But that's where it ends, there are no business class apps and functionality (there are definite work arounds if you truly can't get over the aesthetics). Next piece of s!!t hype: RIM / Blackberry (I'll choose an iPhone over RIM any day, but while the Treo's are around, I won't budge!

...not to mention, I was just taking a look at the chart...what kind of percentages are these. Let’s see, they are asking a group of people if they are satisfied, separating each group into "Apple buyers" and "Microsoft" buyers, okay two groups, not the five on the chart. If there are, let’s just say, 100 Apple buyers and 80 of them are satisfied, and 100,000 PC / Microsoft buyers and 50,000 are satisfied, of course it's going to look like there are more satisfied Apple users when merely looking at the percentages, not the hard numbers. This is the same thing when one says Mac OS's never get virus and malware issues; this is because there are not enough Mac users out there for virus and malware programmers to give a crap about.